If the book simply had canonical flaws, I wouldn't have made a comic of it. It was the combination of bad writing and no respect for the franchise / characters that inspired me to show the world what this book really was.
That's what's really astonishing to me about the whole thing. When I first heard about this, I have to say that my reaction was "...it's a spinoff novel, who gives a shit?" These kinds of extended universe stories are rarely written
well or edited effectively; the idea that there's a meandering, goofy novel with a large number of canon contradictions isn't particularly notable.
What those initial reactions really didn't make clear to me is just how
disrespectful this novel is: disrespectful to the universe in its complete failure to follow even basic elements of the world-building; disrespectful to the audience in its complete lack of plotting and the unforgivably poor workmanship on display in the writing; disrespectful to Drew Karpyshyn (and anyone who, wisely or not, invested their time and energy into the previous novel trilogy) in the way that it serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever except to incompetently and pointlessly destroy everything those books set up and piss on their ashes (and in their jars.) It's honestly shameful for anyone in a creative industry to take even a cent from anyone in exchange for garbage like this.
A lot of people like the 'humor' in my comics but I can only take credit for a couple ideas like the Doc Brown part or the Anderson Punch. The vast majority of the humor is the unintended sort supplied completely by Dietz.
Don't sell yourself short. There is an artfulness in knowing how to take something awful and re-depict it so as to reveal its utter absurdity.
